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The 2018–19 Budget is guaranteeing the essential health services that Australians rely on, with a $12.4 billion increase in the Health Budget and a $414.5 billion investment in health, aged care and sport.

We will increase:

• Medicare funding by $4.8 billion;
• public hospital funding by more than $30 billion;
• investment in new medicines by $2.4 billion; and
• funding for aged care by $5.0 billion.